Nelson Johnsrud wrote:

> Just popping on this to let you know that I am another newbie to PICS, 
> and I am intently watching this thread.  Like Bill, I may need some 
> future hand-holding, but for now I have been reading, reading, 
> reading.  I do have an Olimex PG4 (~$25) development board/programmer, 
> which came with the 16F628A PIC, so Nigel's 16F628-based tutorial is 
> proving very interesting reading for me.

Hi Nels -- thanks for the post.  I was beginning to wonder if my 
approach of  "read before write" was the right one, but first Olin's 
post and now yours, has reassured me. :-)   I think that Olin hit the 
nail right on the head -- wanting instant gratification (an LED to 
flash, or something like that) is deadly.  I also appreciate your 
comments about Nigel's tutorial, although some of the other ones that I 
was given the URL for also look pretty interesting.   I think that the 
person who said "why not try more than one?" or words to that effect 
probably gave me good advice, since each location seems to have both 
weak points and strong points (at least so far as I can tell, but I 
admit to being pretty ignorant).  And by "weak" I do not mean wrong, I 
mean out of date, or not explained in a way that I can understand, that 
sort of thing.

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